An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for a hybrid car, which is of the heater catalyst type and which is provided with an electric motor 1 for driving the hybrid car, a battery 2 for supplying electric power to the electric motor 1, a power generator 3 for charging the battery 2, an internal-combustion engine 4 for driving the power generator 3, and a controller 5 for controlling the operation of th...

An apparatus for stripping waste yarn from textile tubes comprises a vertically travelling carriage 8 which places the tubes in a clamp 5 with associated stripping jaws and causes stripping of the yarn to take place, a suction tube associated with the clamp 5 for extracting the stripped yarn and a programmed control device which controls the operation of the parts of the apparatus. The apparatus m...

A sintered hard metal component is made by coating a green body of a first cemented carbide with a paste of a second cemented carbide in a liquid hydrocarbon, drying the paste to form a green coating and then sintering both the core and coating.

The invention relates to a method and a device for use when carrying out this method to control the compression force of an X-ray examining device for use in mammography. A breast to be imaged is pressed with an increased compression force between the pressure plate and the object table. In order to obtain a method of the abovementioned type in which an optimum compression pressure is adapted to t...

This invention is an external fixator for securing a first bone portion (12) in a fixed relationship with respect to a second bone portion (14). The fixator includes a bone screw clamp (28) for receiving a first bone screw which is connected to the first bone portion and which includes a spherical portion (26). The fixator further includes a bone screw clamp (34) which is operable to receive a sec...

Novel disubstituted and trisubstituted derivatives of 2,3:4,6-di-O-isopropylidene- alpha -L-xylo-2-hexulofuranosonic acid containing at least one alkyl group at position 1, position 4 being occupied by OH, O-alkylamino or O-alkylaminoheterocyclic moiety, and the OH group at position 6 being replaced by a saturated heterocyclic moiety or aminoalkyl heterocyclic group. These compounds exhibit anti-c...

The present invention describes glycomimetic saccharopeptides of formula (I): W-(X)n-Y-[(X)n-W-(X)n-Y]m-(X)n-W, wherein W is independently selected from the group consisting of a) saccharides; b) aryl, aralkyl; c) alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, optionally substituted; d) cyclic alkyl or 5-7 carbon atoms, heterocyclic alkyl. Y is independently selected from the group consisting of -NR<3>-C(O)- and -...

The invention relates to N-alkyl-N-glycosyl derivatives of alkyl esters of antifungal antibiotics of polyene macrolide group of general formula (1a), wherein M represents polyene macrolide antibiotics residues, R represents a variable part of sugar residue, and each of R<1> and R<2> represents a C1-4 alkyl group; their salts of general formula (2a), wherein R, R<1>, R<2> and M are as herein define...

Antimicrobial compounds having formula (I) as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of treating bacterial infection and colitis by the administration thereof.; L'invention se rapporte à des composés antimicrobiens de la formule (I) ainsi qu'à des compositions pharmaceutiques comprenant ces composés, et à des procédés de traitement des infections bactériennes et ...

In the transmission of multimedia and hypermedia services to a mobile receiver no mechanisms have yet been specified in new radio systems, such as the DAB system for transmitting service components and files so that the software of the receiver would be able to receive, combine, form, present and execute the services in the way desired by the user. In accordance with the invention, the service is ...

The hydroxyl group in position 2' of erythromycin A is acetylated, the hydroxyl group in position 4'' is formylated and subjected to reaction for the formation of hemiketal; subsequently, the hydroxyl group in position 11 is oxidized and the hydroxyl group in position 12 is alkylated, followed by removal of the acetyl group in position 2' and the formyl group in position 4'' to yield a compound; t...

The therapy device (1) described for the treatment of concretions and tissues in the bodies of patients by means of sound waves comprises a sound wave generator (2) and an X-ray unit (9), which can be placed beside the device, for location of a therapy object, the therapy device having a targeting device (8). In order to permit quick and reliably accurate adjustment and fixation of a known X-ray u...

Compounds of the formula wherein R<1> is OH, NH2; R<2> is a heteroaromatic or aromatic substituent as defined in claim 1; R<3> is H, OH, F, OCH3; R<4> is H, F, OH or an ether or ester residue thereof, OCH3, CN, C IDENTICAL CH, N3; R<5> is OH or an ether or ester residue thereof including mono-, di- and triphosphate esters; wherein n is O or 1 and M is hydrogen or a pharmaceutically a...

There is disclosed a driving device for a recording head such as a thermal head (10) or an ink jet head driven in plural blocks, capable of avoiding formation of division lines, or low-density streaks, in the recorded image at the boundaries of the driving blocks of the head (10). In this driving device, the time difference between the start of pulse application to a heat generating element of the...

This invention is concerned with water-soluble film-forming inorganic compounds having a specific gravity of 1.1 or more and capable of being formed into a film at ordinary temperature or by heating, said compound being formed by a reaction of a metal, a mineral acid compound capable of hydrating accompanied by the dissociation of boric acid or hydrofluoric acid, and an alkali metal, wherein in wa...

Method for the preparation of monomers containing at least one polymerisable carbonyloxyvinyl group, of a saccharide chosen from mono-, di- and tri-saccharides, especially from non-reducing mono-, di- and trisaccharides, which consists in reacting the aforementioned saccharide in an aqueous medium with an esterifying reagent containing the aforementioned polymerisable carbonyloxyvinyl group in the...

Alkyl glycoside aqueous solutions, which satisfy the following conditions (a) and/or (b): (a) the solution is maintained at a pH value exceeding 7, and (b) the solution contains a water-soluble alcohol, are highly stable with respect to microbial activities, such as putrefaction and fungal growth, and are useful as surface active agents. y

A versatile reagent with a non-nucleotide monomeric unit having a ligand, and first and second coupling groups which are linked to the non-nucleotide monomeric unit. The ligand can be either a functional moiety, such as a label or intercalator, or a linking arm which can be linked to such a moiety. Such reagent permits preparation of versatile nucleotide/non-nucleotide polymers, having any desired...

The microcontroller self-testing method involves using a control arrangement (3) of the microcontroller to test if the data contents of a non-volatile memory (1) are error free, and setting memory addressing logic (5) in such a manner, when an error was detected, that a second non-volatile memory (2) is used instead of the erroneous memory. To test the first memory a check-sum is pref. formed of p...